Maria Fernanda Lima‐Costa

Research interests

Publications

• Sex differences in dementia risk and risk factors: Individual‐participant data analysis using 21 cohorts across six continents from the COSMIC consortium

  Alzheimer s & Dementia · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12962

• Associations between social connections and cognition: a global collaborative individual participant data meta-analysis

  The Lancet Healthy Longevity · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2666-7568(22)00199-4

• Determinants of cognitive performance and decline in 20 diverse ethno-regional groups: A COSMIC collaboration cohort study

  PLoS Medicine · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002853

• Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys

  The Lancet Global Health · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(19)30484-x

• The Genomic Impact of European Colonization of the Americas

  Current Biology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.076

• Age-related cognitive decline and associations with sex, education and apolipoprotein E genotype across ethnocultural groups and geographic regions: a collaborative cohort study

  PLoS Medicine · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002261

• The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil): Objectives and Design

  American Journal of Epidemiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx387

• Origin and dynamics of admixture in Brazilians and its effect on the pattern of deleterious mutations

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504447112

• Horizontal equity in health care utilization in Brazil, 1998–2008

  International Journal for Equity in Health · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-11-33

• Major Expansion Of Primary Care In Brazil Linked To Decline In Unnecessary Hospitalization

  Health Affairs · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0251

• Internações por condições sensíveis à atenção primária: a construção da lista brasileira como ferramenta para medir o desempenho do sistema de saúde (Projeto ICSAP - Brasil)

  Cadernos de Saúde Pública · 2009 · 10.1590/s0102-311x2009000600016

• Parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease in the elderly: A community‐based survey in Brazil (the Bambuí study)

  Movement Disorders · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.20806

• Tipos de estudos epidemiológicos: conceitos básicos e aplicações na área do envelhecimento

  Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.5123/s1679-49742003000400003

• Condições de saúde, capacidade funcional, uso de serviços de saúde e gastos com medicamentos da população idosa brasileira: um estudo descritivo baseado na Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios

  Cadernos de Saúde Pública · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-311x2003000300006

• Saúde pública e envelhecimento

  Cadernos de Saúde Pública · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-311x2003000300001

Current projects

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